Better search suggestions in Firefox
We’re working on a new feature to display direct results in your address bar as you type, so that you can skip the results page and get to the right site| blog.mozilla.org
We’re working on a new feature to display direct results in your address bar as you type, so that you can skip the results page and get to the right site| blog.mozilla.org
A malware campaign was recently detected in Brazil, distributing a malicious LNK file using WhatsApp. It delivered a new Maverick banker, which features code overlaps with Coyote malware.| Securelist
Mozilla hat Firefox 144 für Windows, Apple macOS und Linux veröffentlicht. Dieser Artikel fasst die wichtigsten Neuerungen zusammen – wie immer auf diesem Blog weit ausführlicher als auf anderen Websites.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Mit dem Firefox VPN arbeitet Mozilla an einer kostenlosen VPN-Integration in den Firefox-Browser.| soeren-hentzschel.at
This past weekend Mike Conley and I visited the Capstone team to work one-on-one with the students, teach topics, and share the history of Mozilla. The current capstone project is a continuation from last semesters project. The students are working on converting Firefox’s localization implementation from DTD/properties files to Fluent. Fluent brings with it many […]| JAWS
This week I’m taking over for Dolske as he takes a vacation to view the eclipse. This is issue #13 of the Photon Engineering Newsletter. This past week the Nightly team has had some fun with the Firefox icon. We’ve seen the following icons grace Nightly builds in the past week: The icon in the […]| JAWS
Since my last post on the eslint work that is happening in mozilla-central, we have increased coverage as well as enabling more rules. The publication of that post spawned a few conversations, among them Florian Quèze has added a bunch of new Mozilla-specific rules to our eslint configuration and evilpies has started looking at what […]| JAWS
In the past week there has been quite a lot of progress made on the eslint front. Last week I enabled the following rules for the default mozilla-central eslint configuration (/toolkit/.eslintrc.js): no-extra-label no-iterator no-regex-spaces no-self-assign no-unsafe-negation no-unused-labels object-shorthand brace-style no-multi-spaces no-debugger no-delete-var no-sparse-arrays no-unsafe-finally no-cond-assign no-extra-bind no-useless-call no-lone-blocks no-useless-return Mark Banner has con...| JAWS
First, let me say that the students working on this project have done a great job. Secondly, let me say that I’ve not done a great job blogging about their work. I will try to make up for it in this post. Since the previous post a lot has happened: we had our hack-weekend at […]| JAWS
Mike and I met with the “select dropdown” team today and discussed where they’re at and the work that they can focus on for the next week. We are discussing a possible “hack-weekend” October 1st and 2nd at Michigan State. Freddy got XCode up and running and can debug processes at the single-process/multi-process fork. Jared […]| JAWS
A couple of weeks ago Mike de Boer and I started work on a project to rethink themes in Firefox. At present day, Firefox offers two ways for users to theme their browser: XUL themes (also known as “complete themes”) and lightweight themes (also known as “themes”). We want to create something that gives more […]| JAWS
Last week marked the beginning of a new 12-week period of mentorship for myself. I’ll be working Mike Conley to share mentorship duties as we mentor a group of five Michigan State University students. The students are all seniors in the Computer Science program. The MSU Capstone is a program that pairs industry companies with […]| JAWS
Just a couple of weeks ago marked the end of my first Outreachy session. During the session I mentored Katie Broida as she worked on some pretty cool features for Firefox. I learned a lot during the session, and I think she did too. I learned how to advertise and recruit for job openings, gather […]| JAWS
I spent some time last night looking in to a bug in the Firefox preferences as part of the Outreachy internship I’m mentoring. This bug is about how the context menus in our preferences were …| JAWS
Now that support for Windows 10 has ended, software developers will make announcements regarding support of their products on the operating system. Mozilla has just announced that it will continue to support Firefox on Windows 10 devices for “the foreseeable future”. While the organization did not provide a specific, at least “at the minimum until”... The post Mozilla will continue to support Firefox on Windows 10 appeared first on Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews.| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
The private browsing mode of web browsers is quite useful, albeit not for the task that developers like Google or Mozilla advertise it for. While the companies make it sound like a good way to improve privacy, it is just that in one very specific use case: if someone else has access to the device,... The post Firefox: how to delete files download in private browsing automatically appeared first on Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews.| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
If you use Firefox and have had issues connecting to some Google-owned properties and services, then you may have experienced an issue that Mozilla fixed in Firefox 143.0.4. The fourth point update for Firefox 143 addresses a single issue. While it is not uncommon for Mozilla to release point updates — smaller updates that fix... The post Firefox 143.0.4 fixes Google connection problems appeared first on Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews.| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
This week Microsoft released the final free monthly update to Windows 10. While this marks the end of support from Microsoft, Firefox will continue to supp| blog.mozilla.org
What would your browser history say about you? Whether you were getting things done this week or just collecting tabs, a new Firefox extension helps you re| blog.mozilla.org
Today I want to celebrate niche tooling that makes life more comfortable on the computer. For context, I like to work with computers from the keyboard, minimizing use of the mouse. But this is often difficult to do consistently, especially when everything is a web app, a world known to be mouse-focused. Let me tell you about the fantastic Firefox extensions Vimium, and Edit With Emacs, both of which make the keyboard life more pleasant.| Jiby's toolbox
At Mozilla, we build Firefox around one principle: putting you in control. With today’s release, we’re introducing new features that make browsing smar| blog.mozilla.org
Firefox besitzt eine Übersetzungsfunktion für Websites, welche im Gegensatz zu Cloud-Übersetzern wie Google Translate lokal arbeitet, die eingegebenen Texte also nicht an einen fremden Server sendet. Die Qualität der Übersetzungen sollte nun auf einem verbesserten Niveau sein.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Mozilla hat mit Firefox 143.0.4 ein Update außer der Reihe für seinen Desktop-Browser in der Versionsreihe 143 veröffentlicht.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Mozilla hat mit Firefox 143.0.3 ein Update außer der Reihe für seinen Desktop-Browser in der Versionsreihe 143 veröffentlicht.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Der Enterprise Policy Generator richtet sich an Administratoren von Unternehmen und Organisationen, welche Firefox konfigurieren wollen.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Shake to Summarize has been recognized with a Special Mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025. Each year TIME spotlights a range of new industry-defini| blog.mozilla.org
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out profile management in Firefox s| blog.mozilla.org
Mozilla released a new point update for its Firefox web browser today. Firefox 143.0.3 is a security update that fixes also some non-security issues in the open source browser. The new update is available already via the browser’s automatic update feature. Existing users may speed up the installation of the update by selecting Menu >...| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
Mozilla is rolling out a new feature in recent versions of the Firefox web browser that introduces visual search functionality. This allows users to run visual searches by right-clicking on images. Mozilla lists several main applications for the new feature on its Connect website. Right-click on any image displayed in the browser and select the...| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
Firefox is celebrating 21 years of Firefox by hosting four global events celebrating the power of browser choice this fall. We are inviting people to join us in Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and Munich as part of Open What You Want, Firefox’s campaign to celebrate choice and the freedom to show up exactly as you […] The post Celebrate the power of browser choice with Firefox. Join us live. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.| The Mozilla Blog
We’re celebrating Firefox’s 21st anniversary this November, marking more than two decades of building a web that reflects creativity, independence and| blog.mozilla.org
Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements.| 9to5Linux
All web browsing starts with a DNS query to find the IP address for the desired service or website. For much of the internet’s history, this query is sen| blog.mozilla.org
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser continues to be supported on Windows 7 and older versions of Apple’s macOS operating systems, according to an update that Mozilla published on its website. According to the update, Firefox ESR 115 support is extended until at least March 2026. Mozilla plans to evaluate the end of support again in March...| Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
Some context and analysis about attacks on| /dev/posts/
I updated a Geeksphone Peak from| /dev/posts/
Last week, Judge Amit Mehta issued a ruling in the remedies proceedings of the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. Among the issues addressed, one key aspect t| blog.mozilla.org
Speaking the TCP protocol, we communicate between "ports" in the local and remote ends. Each of these port fields are 16 bits in the protocol header so they can hold values between 0 - 65535. (IPv4 or IPv6 are the same here.) We usually do HTTP on port 80 and we do HTTPS on port … Continue reading Pretending port zero is a normal one →| daniel.haxx.se
Aplikacji Pocket, znanej niegdyś jako Read It Later, używałem niemal każdego dnia przez ostatnie 12 lat. Paradoksalnie, im mniej czasu miałem na korzystanie z komputera czy telefonu, tym bardziej była użyteczna. Jej zastosowanie? Przechowywała linki do tekstów, które chciałem przeczytać; filmów, które chciałem obejrzeć; podcastów, które mogły mnie zaciekawić. Wrzucenie tam linku „na później” było […] Artykuł Umarł Pocket, niech żyje Raindrop.io pochodzi z serwi...| Informatyk Zakładowy
Önce ana rakamlar. Toplam gelir 593 milyon dolardı, bu da Mozilla’nın 2021’de kazandığından 6 milyon dolar daha az. Yine de 2020 gelirinden 100 milyon dolar daha fazla. Gelirlerin çoğunluğu telif haklarından geliyor. Mozilla telif ödemelerini şirketlere göre ayırmıyor, ancak çoğunluk Google arama anlaşmasından geliyor. Telif hakları Mozilla’ya 2022’de 510 milyon dolar kazandırdı ve bu rakam […]| MurHas
Mozilla hat Firefox 142 veröffentlicht. Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Neuerungen des Browsers für Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS und Linux.| soeren-hentzschel.at
In den letzten Tagen haben einige Medien über eine angeblich hohe CPU-Auslastung auf Grund von KI-Funktionen für die Tab-Gruppen in Firefox berichtet.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Mozilla hat mit Firefox 141.0.3 ein Update außer der Reihe für seinen Desktop-Browser in der Versionsreihe 141 veröffentlicht.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Mozilla hat mit Firefox 141.0.2 ein Update außer der Reihe für seinen Desktop-Browser in der Versionsreihe 141 veröffentlicht.| soeren-hentzschel.at
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 142 will begin production usage of our brand new certificate revocation system known as CRLite. CRLite makes your b| blog.mozilla.org
When Firefox users ask for better translation support, we make it happen. Thanks to your feedback on Mozilla Connect, Firefox now supports Chinese, Japanes| blog.mozilla.org
Where has the default got us? Today, the default means sitting by while Big Tech and The Billionaires who run the industry shape every aspect of your life| blog.mozilla.org
Change the Firefox default behavior and open new tabs next to the current one.| www.stefanjudis.com
Mozilla hat Firefox 141 veröffentlicht. Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Neuerungen des Browsers für Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS und Linux.| soeren-hentzschel.at
In case you’re working with the Origin Private File System on a browser whose dev tools don’t yet support browsing the files (all browsers as of Nov 2023, though Chrome does have an unofficial extension which is nice), then here’s a code snippet you can use to list all the contents of the file system. … Continue reading How to list all files in a browser’s Origin Private File System (OPFS)→| SOS
Mozilla hat mit Firefox 140.0.4 ein Update außer der Reihe für seinen Desktop-Browser in der Versionsreihe 140 veröffentlicht.| soeren-hentzschel.at
I've been hacking Firefox CSS to make the "Back" button bigger since 2004.| philwilson.org
Our recent tab management poll revealed that many readers don’t fully understand pinned tabs and thus aren’t taking advantage of them. Adam Engst takes a deep look at the history and goals of Web navigation to explain where pinned tabs came from, why many people don’t use them, and how usage varies by browser.| TidBITS
Can some organization create a new browser from scratch? Is it realistic and what will it take?| WaspDev
The non-profit Mozilla Corporation has made Microsoft-owned GitHub the “canonical home” for the source code of the Firefox […]| DEVCLASS
Pocket, the popular "read it later" service Mozilla bought in 2017, is shutting down on July 8. Users have until October to export data. Why? Well…| OMG! Ubuntu
Firefox, Mozilla et les alternatives| mart-e.be
Orbit by Mozilla ist eine Firefox-Erweiterung von Mozilla, welche den Browser um einen KI-Assistenten erweitert.| soeren-hentzschel.at
Open a web browser and you step into a garden of forking paths — where news, messages, memes, work, learning and cat videos all compete for your attentio| blog.mozilla.org
The WordPress news from the last week with Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Tammie Lister, Tim Nash. We discuss a variety of WordPress topics. Michelle launches a new events-focused podcast with Bob WP, and starts a weekly series of talks at Post Status. We explore potential alternatives to Figma, Automattic's recent workforce restructuring, and the implications of a reduced WordPress release cadence. We also cover upcoming events like Press Conf and the Page Builder Summit, and discuss th...| WP Builds
If you’ve ever had more tabs open than you can count, you know the struggle: tiny, unreadable tab titles, constant scrolling, and that moment of panic wh| blog.mozilla.org
Beginning in version 138, Firefox will offer an alternative to DLL injection for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) deployments in enterprise environments. DLL Injection DLL injection into Firefox is a topic we’ve covered on the Hacks blog before. In 2023, we blogged about the Firefox capability to let users block third-party DLLs from being loaded. We […] The post Improving Firefox Stability in the Enterprise by Reducing DLL Injection appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
TL;DR Fission is happening and our first "Milestone" is targeted at the end of February. Please file bugs related to fission and mark them as "Fission Milestone: ?" so we can triage them into the correct milestone. A little than more a year ago, a serious security flaw affecting almost …| Nika's Box
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The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users| OMG! Ubuntu
Certificate Transparency (CT) has been one of the biggest advancements in web security, keeping users safe from threats such as certificate fraud and man-in-the-middle attacks. While CT has been around for over 11 years, enforcement has varied across...| Transparency.dev Community Blog
Die Firma hinter dem Browser Firefox hat vergangene Woche neue Nutzungsbedingungen veröffentlicht: Sie verspricht nun nicht mehr, niemals persönliche Daten zu verkaufen. Nutzer*innen sind verunsichert.| netzpolitik.org
Ever wondered what the Alt-Svc response header is used for? Turns out it can be used to become a Man-in-the-Middle and attack TLS!| pspaul's blog
Introduction An awesome feature in Firefox that has existed forever is the ability to assign keywords to bookmarks. For example, I could assign the word “ban...| www.jantrid.net
Interop 2025 continues the mission to make the web more consistent across browsers, building on 2024’s 95% interoperability score.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 11th November 2024.| WP Builds
Mozilla and Filament have introduced Uniffi for React Native, a tool that allows developers to leverage the safety and performance benefits of Rust in cross-platform React Native apps. The post Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to-end testing using Puppeteer, and run against both Chrome and Firefox. The post Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Following the success of Interop 2023, we are pleased to confirm that the project will continue in 2024 with a new selection of focus areas, representing areas of the web platform where we think we can have the biggest positive impact on users and web developers. The post Announcing Interop 2024 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Although there are no details about the transition, Apple has taken over the previously independent iCloud Passwords add-on for Firefox. The move enhances the company’s password management services for users outside its ecosystem.| TidBITS
I updated the Baseline JIT patches to apply against Firefox 128ESR, though if you use the Mercurial rebase extension (and you should), it will rebase automatically and only one file had to be merged — which it did for me also. Nevertheless, everything is up to date against tip again, and this patchset works fine for both Firefox and Thunderbird. I kept the fix for bug 1912623 because I think Mozilla's fix in bug 1909204 is wrong (or at least suboptimal) and this is faster on systems without...| Talospace
The issues with Ion and Wasm in OpenPower Firefox notwithstanding, the Baseline JIT works well in Firefox ESR128, and many of you use it (in...| www.talospace.com
It is now widely known that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ships Firefox as a snap, but some people (like me) may prefer installing it from .deb packages to retain control over upgrades or to keep extensions working. Luckily there is still a PPA serving firefox (and thunderbird) debs at https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa maintained by the Mozilla […]| Obsessed with reality
It's been a long hot summer at $DAYJOB and I haven't had much time for much of anything, but I got granted some time this week to take care ...| www.talospace.com
Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers. The post Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Mozilla hat mit der kürzlich veröffentlichten Version 128 von Firefox die sogenannte PPA (Privacy-Preserving Attribution) aktiviert. Dabei handelt es sich um| Curius
It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, o…| Aharoni in Unicode
Since the Electron wrapper of Discord is so bad and outdated, especially on Linux, here's a way to start Discord through Linux in a "single page app" way. I got the help for it from here but I wanted to write this down in step-by-step way. (Honestly mostly for myself so I dont have to find it again lol) 1. Create Discord profile Open about:profiles in Firefox, and create a new profile called Discord. Set the default profile as the one you're currently using, it should say "This is the profile...| AksDev
Process separation remains one of the most important parts of the Firefox security model and securing our IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interfaces is crucial to keep privileges in the different processes separated. We take a more detailed look at our newest tool for finding vulnerabilities in these interfaces – snapshot fuzzing. The post Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Today we’re proud to announce the next Mozilla Builders project: sqlite-vec. Led by independent developer Alex Garcia, this project brings vector search functionality to the beloved SQLite embedded database. Alex has been working on this problem for a while, and we think his latest approach will have a great impact by providing application developers with a powerful new tool for building Local AI applications. The post Sponsoring sqlite-vec to enable more powerful Local AI applications appe...| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
It appears that some of the issues observed by me and others with Chromium on Fedora ppc64le may in fact be due to an incomplete patch set...| www.talospace.com
In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also share insights into the technical nuances of the implementation, demonstrating how Rust's features are leveraged to handle crashes more effectively and securely. The post Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust appeared first on Mo...| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But today’s release is more open and more challenging than before, and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements that we’ve ever seen. The post Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3 appeared f...| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
During the Firefox 120 beta cycle, a new crash signature appeared on our radars with significant volume. Engineers working on Firefox, explore the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags. The post Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
A month ago, we introduced our Nightly package for Debian-based Linux distributions. Today, we are proud to announce we made our .deb package available for Developer Edition and Beta! The post Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Mozilla has just launched the AI Guide, a collaborative hub for developers to join forces, inspire each other, and lead the way in groundbreaking generative AI advancements. The AI Guide’s initial focus begins with language models and the aim is to become a collaborative community-driven resource covering other types of models. The post Mozilla AI Guide Launch with Summarization Code Example appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Intelerad has developed something called “nuage Patient Portal”, which is used by many clinics to let patients download their scans. It’s an excellent service, especially if you want to have backups of all of your own health records. But it (or at least the version used by my clinic) does have a flaw: it’s cumbersome to download all the images.| Paperless
MIME-type spoofing in Firefox/Thunderbird and file managers| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
DNS rebinding vulnerability to RCE in GeckoDriver| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
CSRF to RCE in GeckoDriver| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
Firefox DoH DNS rebinding protection bypass using IPv4-mapped addresses| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
IP address spoofing in order to watch South Park| www.gabriel.urdhr.fr
TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using aria-level or the proposed headingstart HTML attribute. Use HTML elements whenever possible. ARIA The aria-level attribute, when applied to headings (or nodes with the heading role) lets authors set an integer value for a heading level.…| Adrian Roselli
How to improve Firefox SSL/TLS security by enabling TLS 1.2 and disabling insecure ciphersuites.| blog.dbrgn.ch
When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. The post Llamafile’s progress, four months in appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.| Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
